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Hi

I am trying to understand, what osh is?

I understand osh code gets generated for every DataStage EE job & one can view the same through generated osh through job properties window.

Can it be the way, if only osh script is written, but no corresponding datastage job there in DataStage repository?

Trying to understand if GUI can provide simpler but strong functionalities, what osh is providing for DataStage developer community?

There used to be an entirely scripted product called Orchestrate, from Torrent Systems. Ascential Software (vendor of DataStage at the time) acquired Torrent Systems and created a DataStage GUI that write osh scripts to invoke various of the Orchestrate operators.

Yes, it is possible to create osh scripts without the GUI - many of the old Torrent customers still do that.

Orchestrate (or "the framework") is the mechanism that allows for automatic scaling and resource management based solely upon choice of configuration file. It is this that osh provides.